Monopoly abuse? No such thing (for us)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v45znvgsXQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261103-google-cuts-off-search-if-schools-block-ai - podcast
time: 4 min 13 sec
You can’t have your vegetables if you don’t eat your meth!
google successfully persuading every usamerican (idk how is in other countries) educational institution that nothing would possibly go wrong if they just slid their useful little software in between teachers and students that everyone could use on their neat little chromebooks was such a fucking catastrophe
@theodoraward @GhostOnTheHalfShell I’ve been repeating this all over Mastodon but it is absurdly, tragically easy to get a school district or educational institution to buy whatever snake-oil tech solution you’re selling, partly because the buyers don’t know enough to ask the right questions.
the way in was the IT department. chromebooks are interchangeable and semidisposable, which solved many problems for them. even then the vendors had to build special education versions that would survive the litttle dears throwing them down a stairwell.
Ah yes, because Google believes themselves to be the only search engine in existence…No way that it could possibly spur schools to ditch them instead. For something less shitty like a meta-search engine that isn’t interested in collecting your information. Ah, monopolies, this is why you need to swat them like flies and quickly too!
They’re better off.
